The White House says it did not cover up the problem but believed that it had been resolved without affecting the administration's response to subpoenas.
The presentation was among thousands of pages of documents provided in response to subpoenas by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, another panel holding hearings on Toyota's safety problems.
And, for at least the past six years, AT&T has embedded its employees in federally funded drug investigation offices to analyze call records, in response to subpoenas, to track drug dealers who switch phones.
The problem was fixed in November 1998 but thousands of messages received by presidential aides before then were not put into an archival system that made them available for searches in response to subpoenas by investigating agencies.
The new problem means that the White House's electronic document searches in response to subpoenas regarding cases like the Monica Lewinsky one and campaign fund-raising were even faultier than previously thought.
A specific group works on prioritising the bank's response to subpoenas; a weekly call involving 25-30 of the more senior people in the compliance division is designed to iron out problems that arise from all these requests.Given what went on during the crisis, it is no surprise that there is lots of litigation.
The attached letter, the employee said, consisted of a single sentence citing the Justice Department regulation for obtaining journalists' telephone records, and saying that The A.P. "is hereby notified that the United States Department of Justice has received toll records from April and May 2012 in response to subpoenas issued" for 20 phone numbers in five area codes and three states.
A Wyoming legislative committee investigating the state's elected education boss is criticizing her for sending 165,000 files -- including pictures and motivational speeches -- in response to subpoenas.
Wyoming House Speaker Tom Lubnau (R-Gillette), the investigative committee's chairman, sent a letter to Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill (R) Friday saying that the committee has grown "weary of your transparent attempts to frustrate" the panel, including her large-scale document drop in response to subpoenas from the committee.
In his statement, Lawsky goes so far as to say that Bitcoin's existence depends on the responses to those subpoenas.
"As early as tomorrow (Monday), we hope to be starting to get responses to the subpoenas," Wisniewski said.
